Body matters
Body matters: feminism, textuality, corporeality
edited by Avril Horner and Angela Keane
Publisher: Manchester ; Manchester University Press, 2000.
ISBN: 0719054680
DDC: 305.4201
LCC: HQ1190
Edition: (hbk.) :45.00
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1Consumption, production and reproduction --1'Candid advice to
the fair sex': or, the politics of maternity in late
eighteenth-century Britain / Amanda Gilroy17 --2Mary Wollstonecraft's
imperious sympathies: population, maternity and Romantic
individualism / Angela Keane29 --3Productive, reproductive and
consuming bodies in Victorian aesthetic models / Regenia Gagnier43
--4Embodying the New Woman: Dorothy Richardson, work and the London
cafe / Scott Mccracken58 --Part 2Matters of difference:
misrecognition and dissymmetries --5Bodily dissymmetries and
masculine anxiety: Herculine has the last laugh / Ursula Tidd75
--6Embodying strangers / Sara Ahmed85 --7Material difference and the
supplementary body in Alice Walker's The Color Purple / Charmaine
Eddy97 --8The body and its discontents / Elisabeth Bronfen109 --Part
3Memory and mourning: narratives of violation --9Eighteenth-century
prostitution: feminist debates and the writing of histories / Vivien
Jones127 --10The story of Draupadi's disrobing: meanings for our
times / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan143 --11Boundaries of violence: female
migratory subjects, political agency and postcoloniality / You-Me
Park159 --12Substantiating discourses of emergence: corporeality,
spectrality and postmodern historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved
/ Susan Spearey170 --Part 4Re-viewing bodies in fiction --13Little
girls and large women: representations of the female body in
Elizabeth Bowen's later fiction / Clare Hanson185 --14Textu®al
braille: visionary (re)readings of H.D. / Rachel Connor199 --15Daphne
du Maurier and Gothic signatures: Rebecca as vamp(ire) / Avril
Horner, Sue Zlosnik209 --Part 5Spirits, mystics and transcendents
--16Memory, imagination and the (m)other: an Irigarayan reading of
Charlotte Bronte's Villette / Sue Chaplin225 --17The lesbian Christ:
body politics in Helene Cixous's Le Livre de Promethea / Val Gough234
--18Imaginal bodies and feminine spirits: performing gender in
Jungian theory and Atwood's Alias Grace / Susan Rowland244.
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